Print Software
This section of WhatTheyThink aggregates all of the news, educational content, and analysis about the software that drives print businesses, from order entry through shipping and invoicing. It is combined in a single area so that our members and the industry as a whole can go to a single place to learn how software is changing the business of print and gain actionable ideas on how they may apply new solutions to their own business problems.
Commentary & Analysis
Web-to-Print’s Primary Value is Customer Convenience
Systemize the Predictable in Your Print Business
How Cloud Computing Is Transforming CCM
Partnering to Expand Your Customer Solutions
IT Infrastructure and Software Performance
drupa 2021 Essentials of Print: Assessments, Platforms, and Making Money with Workflow
Estimating: Your Customers Least Favorite Aspect of Print Buying
Projects: Getting Stuff Done in Your Print Business
The Print Software Evaluation Process
COVID-19's Impact on the Print Sales Process
The Print Industry After COVID-19
News
Tharstern Integrates with Avalara to Help Customers Become More Efficient
Solimar Systems Enables $400K of New Business to Borns Group
Xitron Begins SCREEN HQ-RIP Fulfillment
CAD-Based Impositioning Comes to Fujifilm J Press Users through New Partnership with Tilia Labs
Mako Adds Value to Racami Transactional Workflow
Rescigno's Implements Midnight MIS
Adobe Named a Leader in Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines
Xitron Developed User Interface for Colordyne's New Retrofit
Global Graphics Goes Full Speed Ahead with New Guide to Making Variable-Data PDFs
Published: June 1, 2020
Martin Bailey, CTO of Global Graphics Software, talks with David Zwang about “Full Speed Ahead,” a new guide that helps people make PDF files for variable-data printing more efficiently, especially as VDP is taking off in new markets and applications, such as labels and packaging. Watch Video
The Added Value of Web-to-Print
Published: February 11, 2020
Greg Salzman, President of Aleyant Systems, talks to David Zwang about the value that a web-to-print/online ordering portal beings to a print business. Not only does it make it convenient for customers to place orders at any time, it also frees up resources within the print business, as it doesn’t require the involvement of sales or customer service reps, or even estimators. Watch Video
Get It Now Print Streamlines Its Workflow
Published: January 20, 2020
From 20 jobs per day to 100, Get It Now Print has increased production and their customer base with the help of EFI’s Fiery Workflow solution. Simple, efficient, and agile, Fiery automation can help your print business get more work out the door. Watch Video
drupa Preview: Front-End Trends
Published: January 9, 2020
Wim Fransen, General Manager of Enfocus, talks to David Zwang about some of the major trends he has been seeing as we head toward drupa, including the emergence of faster technologies, the need to handle shorter job runs with faster turnaround times, and new front-end solutions that bridge the gap between job entry, MIS, and prepress. Watch Video
CapStone’s AutoViri Automates Mailing
Published: December 5, 2019
Troy Power, cofounder of CapStone Technologies, talks about the company’s Red Hot Technology Award-winning AutoViri robotic solutions for automating mailing workflows. AutoViri helps connect the physical workflow to the digital workflow—and can save customers money on mailing costs by being plugged into the latest USPS regulations. Watch Video
Enfocus Addresses the Needs of Niche Printing Markets
Published: December 3, 2019
Wim Fransen, Managing Director of Enfocus, talks to David Zwang about the proliferation of niche printing markets—commercial, labels, textiles, wide format, vehicle graphics, etc.—and how they all share many of the same underlying challenges. Enfocus has been seeking to develop specific configurations of its flagship PitStop software to address the individual needs of these vertical markets. Watch Video
Avanti’s Red Hot Technology Awards
Published: November 27, 2019
Pat Bolan, President of Avanti, talks to Pat McGrew about the company’s Red Hot Technology Award-winning enhancements to Avanti Slingshot at PRINT 19—Advanced Fulfillment Workflow Enhancement and the XML Loader Enhancement for Web to Print solutions. Watch Video
Crawford Technologies’ SmartSetup Streamlines Application Onboarding
Published: November 26, 2019
David Zwang talks to Ernie Crawford, CEO of Crawford Technologies, a software company that focuses on the transactional printing market, helping organizations improve the ways that they deliver documents to customers, in print or omnichannel. The company just launched its new SmartSetup, designed for rapidly onboarding applications into workflow automation and ADF systems. Watch Video
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